Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| Lars> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | So this is a
| Lars> very complicated ligature, but the same idea as "fi". It | does
| Lars> not break the assumption that, for the kernel, a text is a
| Lars> string | of graphemes.
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| Lars> I think that is just the opposite of how the kernel should
| Lars> handle text. To the kernel text is just a string of codepoints.
| Lars> It is the frontend, the display endgine that changes this into
| Lars> graphemes.
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| The display engines changes this into glyphs, not graphemes.
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| Why do you think that having the kernel handle graphemes is bad?
There difference between a glyph and a grapheme is minute.
Both are display stuff -> frontend.
I think the question should be reversed: Why do you think the kernel
should should handle graphemes?
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Lgb
